Without wishing any harm to Biaggi i hope he has a mare at the weekend and Sykes takes the crown. Highly unlikely but Melandri's riding with broken ribs so it's possibly just down to the 30.5 points seperating Tom and Max.

Anyone else going to be there? We'll be there Sunday, possibly Saturday as well.

Update after morning Qualifying Practice 2Melandri upped the game a bit to just beat Sykes' time with J Rea Esq also in decent position. Contrary to my previous beliefs Rea's spell on the RCV doesn't seem to have done him any harm so let's hope he can put in a good couple of race performances.

It has been announced that Leon Camier has re-signed for 2013 with Crescent Suzuki but no mention of Hopkins so he's going to struggle for a ride anywhere except AMA if you ask me.Edit- just seen comment on Twutter that Guintoli is close to signing for Paul Denning so that must be a definite no-no for Hopkins.Glad for Guinters he looked comfortable on the GSXR in BSB a couple of years back. Well... until Mr Brookes decided he looked TOO comfortable

Eugene is an Ulsterman, too. Their hometowns are <30 miles apart. Eugene, as a Roman Catholic (nationalist), sees himself, as he is quite entitled to do, as Irish.Jonny is Protestant (unionist), hence the British affiliation.

Before anyone comments ... being a prod doesn't mean that one is exclusively unionist, and vice versa for a RC.

Eugene is an Ulsterman, too. Their hometowns are <30 miles apart. Eugene, as a Roman Catholic (nationalist), sees himself, as he is quite entitled to do, as Irish.Jonny is Protestant (unionist), hence the British affiliation.

Before anyone comments ... being a prod doesn't mean that one is exclusively unionist, and vice versa for a RC.

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Obviously, Eugene's brother, Michael, is an enigma!

That explains why at silverstone there were rea fans with white flags with a red hand printed onto it.